Strainer for down-spouts.



UNITED STATES YPATENT OFFICE.

BURTON AROUS STAIR, 'on' HARRISONILLE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALFTo ALBERT B. BOHON, OF HARRISONVILLE, MISSoURr.

STRAINER FOR eowN-SPOUTS.

sinciritca'rlou forming para of Letters Patent No. 694,440, dated March4, 1902.

Application led'Jnne 20, 1901.

To a/ZZ whom, 'it mangeait/cern.-

Be it known that I, BURTON AROUS STAIR, a citizen of the United States,residing at I-Iarrisonville, in the county of Cass and State of,Missouri, have invented a new and useful Strainer for Down-Spouts, ofwhich the following is a specification. g

This invention relates to down-spouts, and has for its object to providean improved strainer therefor which may be conveniently connectedthereto andis arranged to collect foreign matter and sediment, so thatthe same may be readily removed from the strainer, whereby the lattermay bevmaintained in a sanitary condition.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter morefully described, shown in the accompanying drawing, and particularlypointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes inthe form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within thescope of the claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing anyof the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectionalA view of astrainer embodying the present invention. Fig.2 is a cross-V sectionalview taken on .the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in bothfigures'of the drawing.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a box-likecasing 1, which is preferably rectangular in shape and is provided withtop and bottom corresponding openings 2 and 3, which are locatedadjacent to the back of the casing. The upper opening 2 is designed forthe reception of a pipe-section 4, which is projected a suitabledistance into the interior of the casing and is provided at its innerend with an elbow 5, that is inclined or directed toward the front ofthe casing. A lower pipe-section 6 depends from the lower opening, soasto carry off the water introduced through-the upper pipe.

It will be understood that the present device forms a section of adown-spout, the upper and lower pipe-sections being connected to theadjacent sections of the down-spout.

Serin No. 65,332. (no man A suitable hinged cover 7 is provided infro/nt of the upper pipe-section, so as to give access to the interiorof the casing.

Within the interior of the casing and ad- =5 jacent to the bottomthereof thereis provided the opposite cleats or HaugeS 8, which aresecuredto the inner faces of the opposite sides of the casing andincline downwardly from the front of the device. In the front of the 6ocasing and extended upwardly from the outer or front ends of the cleatsthere is provided au opening which extends for the 'entire width of thefront and is for the reception of a removable box or sediment-receptacle10, which has its bottom inclined to correspond with and rest upon thecleats or anges S. This boX is equal to the cross-Section of the casing,and its front closes the opening through which it is inserted. Theinterme- 7o diate portion of its bottom is made perforate, preferably bymeans of a wire screen 11,

.which leaves 'a marginal bottom fiange portion l2. A suitable handle 13is provided 'upon the exterior of the front of the box for 75convenience in applying and removing the box. A removable false bottom14, which isalso perforated with comparatively large openings, isprovided for the sediment-box andhas a pendent marginal foot-{lange or8o rim 15, which restsv upon the bottom-flange portion12 of the box, andalso has auupstandinghandle 16" for convenience in lifting the falsebottom outwardly through the open top o'f the box.

From the foregoing description it is apparent that water is dischargedthrough the elbow 5 toward the front of the casing and upon the frontupper end portion of the false bottom of the sedimentreceptacle,fromwhich 9o it runs down to the lowermost inner portion of the bottom ofthe receptacle land thence outwardly through the discharge-pi pe 6. Theperforate false bottom is designed to collect leaves and large objects,while the screen 8 95 collects the small particles of foreign matter andsediment, which may be conveniently re- IOO prising a casing, having anupper inlet, and a lower outlet, opposite internal supports adjacent tothe bottom thereof, and a sedimentreceptaele removably supported uponthe supports and insert-ed through an opening in the device, the outerside of the receptacle closing the opening, the bottom of the receptaclehaving a strainer, and a removable perforate false bottom within thereceptacle.

2. A strainer of `the class described, comprising a casing, having a topinlet, a bottom outlet, an opening in the front thereof, and oppositeinternal supporting-anges inclined downwardly from the bottom of theopening in the front of the casing, a removable sediment-receptacleinserted through the opening and supported upon the anges, the front ofthe receptacle closingthe opening, and havingahandle, the intermediatebottom portion of the receptacle having a strainer, a perforate falsebottom llavinga pendent marginal foot-flange su pported upon themarginal edge portion of the receptacle.

3. In a strainer of the class described, the combination of a easing,having an inlet-pipe projected through the back of the top thereof, andprovided at the lower end of the pipe with an elbow directed toward thefront of the casing, apendent discharge-pipe piercing the bottom of thecasing, a hinged cover in front of the inlet'pipe, there being anopening formed in the Afront of the casing, corresponding flangesprovided upon the inner faces of the opposite sides of the easing andinclined downwardly from the bottom of the opening in the front ofthecasing, a removable sediment-receptaole inserted through the openingand supported upon the anges, the receptacle closing the opening, andhaving an open top, there being an intermediate strainer in the bottomof the receptacle, a handle upon the front of the receptacle, and aperfor-ate false bottom, having a marginal foot-flange supportedupon thebottom of the receptacle, and an upstanding handle.

4. A strainer for down-spouts having acasing provided with an inlet andan outlet, a sediment-receptacle removably fitted in the easing betweenthe inlet and outlet thereof and provided with a screening-bottom whichis inclined backwardly toward its rear or inner ends, withl a perforatedfalse bottom removably fitted in the receptacle and having anupst-anding handle disposed wholly Within the receptacle, and means fordirecting the incoming Water upon the upper front portion of the falsebottom.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixedmy signatu re in the presence of two witnesses.

BURTON AROUS STAIR.

Vitnesses:

J. D. RUSSELL, LEVI SMITH.

